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Meet our board of directors.
All of our current directors are co-founders of the organization and created the initiative right after graduating from high school, having studied their entire lives in public schools. The founders of Embaixadores da Educação met when they were students in an after-school social project focused on empowering public school students called NEJ (Núcleo de Empreendedorismo Juvenil) of Sebrae. They founded Embaixadores in 2013 as a collective. They formalized the organization in 2017 when they began to professionalize the project.
Learn more about our history in this video .
Gui Guilhermina Abreu
Co-founder and CEO
In 2022, Guilhermina Abreu was included in the Forbes UNDER 30 list. She is a member of Global Shapers, an initiative of the World Economic Forum that brings together young people with exceptional leadership potential.
She is the winner of the first place national award for Entrepreneurial Education 2017, promoted by Endeavor and Sebrae.
In 2023, she joined the YLAI program: One of the 20 Brazilians selected in 2023/2024 to be part of the Young Leaders of the Americas (YLAI) team, a program created by the American government and developed to empower and enhance entrepreneurial initiatives with great potential for social transformation.
In 2020, it joined the IVLP network, a program of the U.S. State Department aimed at boosting leadership worldwide. Currently, more than 500 world leaders, including heads of state and CEOs of global companies, have participated in the program.
In 2020, she was chosen by Encontro Magazine as one of the 15 most influential personalities of 2019 in Minas Gerais.
She is the director of the Galo Institute. She was an advisor to the Alicerce Institute. She is a co-founder and was an advisor to Naação, an organization with the mission of serving communities affected by humanitarian crises.
In 2018, she was one of 10 young women chosen for the "Executives of Tomorrow" program.
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Ten high-potential young Brazilian women are selected through an AI-powered process to receive mentorship from the country's top CEOs, with the goal of promoting female empowerment.
She was a speaker at TEDx Nova Lima and TEDx Newton Paiva. She was an Official Torchbearer for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. To participate in the Rio 2016 Olympic Torch Relay, the Rio 2016 Olympic Games committee chose Brazilians who make significant contributions to Brazilian society.
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Polyane Costa
Co-founder and COO
In 2023, Polyane Costa was recognized with the Léa Garcia Award as one of Brazil's "Black Inspirations," in recognition of her leadership and for inspiring other Black women to occupy decision-making spaces with confidence, excellence, and purpose.
She was the only Brazilian to win a 100% scholarship for the international executive program in Strategic Business Management promoted by LAIOB, in partnership with ISCTE Business School, which is considered the best executive training institution in Portugal and one of the most respected in Europe.
In 2023, she was awarded a full scholarship to pursue her postgraduate studies in Strategic Business Management at Fundação Dom Cabral, ranked among the top 10 business schools in the world according to the Financial Times.
In 2024, she was one of the Black leaders selected for the Black and Indigenous Leadership Development Program (PDLNI) of the Instituto Identidades do Brasil (ID_BR), which recognizes trajectories of high impact and transformative potential in different sectors of the country.
Since 2023, she has been a member of the global ForbesBLK community, composed exclusively of high-impact Black leaders who are transforming society and business with innovation and a forward-thinking vision.
She is also a member of the Peles Negras Network, a national community that brings together prominent Black leaders in their fields and with a strong contribution to society.
She was selected for the Black Chama program, which promotes the journeys of Black women leaders through mentorship from leading female executives in the market, and also for the Líder Negra program, a mentorship initiative with leading female advisors and executives, aimed at strengthening and accelerating the presence of Black women in strategic positions of power.
She served as an advisor for the organization Meu Futuro Digital, an initiative that uses technology to transform the lives of vulnerable young people.